The long-awaited release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19.0 is finally here!
This is the recommended release for SQL Server 2022, and it includes support for combability level 160. You can review the entire list of new functionality and fixes in the release notes, but we’d like to call out a few highlights here:
Improved support and additional options for Azure Active Directory Authentication Migrated to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient (MDS) from System.Data.SqlClient (SDS) Support for Contained Availability Groups Support for Ledger Improvements to the Link feature for Azure SQL Managed Instance Removal of dependency on